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R. K.-B.
Known Participant
November 4, 2025
Question

Noise reduction

  • November 4, 2025
  • 3 replies
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Hi!

After reducing the noise in a photo,

how do I revert to the original photo?

Thanks

3 replies

Per Berntsen
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 4, 2025

Assuming that you're running version 14.4 or later –

to revert to the original photo, click on any previous step in the History panel.

 

dj_paige
Legend
November 4, 2025

Same way you would change any "slider", set it back to zero; or uncheck the Denoise box; or pick the state in History before noise reduction; or hit the Reset button; or probably a bunch of other ways that I can't think of right now.

AxelMatt
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 4, 2025

Which version of Lightroom do you use? 

Since version 14.4 is non destructive like other settings. In the former versions Denoising creates a seperate .DNG file. You can go back to the corresponding RAW file but all settings tht have done after denoising will be lost in this case.

 

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